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DISPLODE

Definition: DISPLODE

DISPLODE

Intransitive verb

1. To burst with a loud report; to explode.

Transitive verb

1. To discharge; to explode.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISPLODE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)


Synonyms within Context: DISPLODE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Violence

Break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DISPLODE

English words defined with "DISPLODE": Disploded, Disploding. (references)

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Derivations: DISPLODE

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISPLODE": disploded, displodes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DISPLODE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lopsided.

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-l-o-p-s"

-1 letter: despoil, dildoes, diploes, dipoles, piddles, spoiled.

-2 letters: didoes, dildoe, dildos, diodes, diploe, dipole, dispel, doiled, lisped, oldies, piddle, pilose, poised, poleis, polies, sidled, siloed, sliped, sloped, soiled, spiled.

-3 letters: deils, delis, didos, dildo, diode, diols, dipso, doled, doles, doped, dopes, dosed, eidos, idled, idles, idols, isled, lidos, lodes, loped, lopes, oiled, oldie, piled.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-l-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: despoiled, disploded, displodes.

 

+2 letters: depolished, diploidies, dispeopled, lopsidedly.

 

+3 letters: diadelphous.

 

+4 letters: diplodocuses, lopsidedness, misdeveloped, postdeadline, pseudopodial.

 

+5 letters: philodendrons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DISPLODE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 53 50 4C 4F 44 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    .--.    .-..    ---    -..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001100 01001111 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#76 &#79 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0050 004C 004F 0044 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3843535046493839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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